Means fob elevating sacks of grain ob the like onto wagons



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J. LUST.

MEANS FOR ELEVATING SACKS 0F GRAIN OR THE LIKE ONTO WAGONS' No. 595,956. Patented Dec. 21, 1897.

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JOHN LUST, OF NEW WASHINGTON, OHIO.

MEANS FOR ELEVATING SACKS F GRAIN OR THE LIKE ONTO WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,956, dated December 21, 1897. Application filed April 3, 1897. Serial No. 630,587. (No model.)

Sacks of Grain or the Like onto Wagons; and

I I do declare the following to be a full, clear,

. to form the guideways.

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a section on line 00 m, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a front view of invention as in application. Fig. 3 is an end view of slideway having side boards grooved. Fig. 4 is a detail plan View of platform.

This invention is designed to provide means of improved character for loading sacks of grain or other merchandise into wagons or other elevated places; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a slideway which is designed to be supported in inclined position, with its upper end resting upon the wagonbox or other object upon which the sacks are to be raised and its lower end upon the floor or other level from which they are to be raised, being mitered off, as indicated at A, for this purpose. Said slideway is shown as being constructed of a bottom board or boards, to the lateral edges of which side boards are secured in such a manner as to project bot above and below the bottom.

Secured to the inner faces of those portions of the side boards which project above the bottom are longitudinal strips B, which form guideways for the end portions of a slide block 0; or in lieu of said strips B the side boards may be grooved on their inner faces (See Fig. 3.)

Attached to the block 0 are two ropes or cables D, which pass up along the bottom to the upper end of the slideway, thence around an idle-roller E, and thence back upon the under side to and around a winding-drum F, on one end of which is a spur-wheel G.

H is a shaft j ournaled parallelwith the drum and carrying a pinion H, which engages the wheel G. p

K is a crank on the shaft H.

The two ropes or cables D are connected by cross-ropes D.

'M is a short platform which is hinged to the upper end of the slideway and isadapted to be supported across the top of the wagonbox. Said platform may, however, be omitted, but if used is preferably provided with a number of antifriction-rollers N, journaled in side strips 0 thereof.

In operation the slide-block C is pulled down to the lower end of the slideway, which unwinds the ropes or cables D from the'drum F. The sack to be raised is placed upon the said ropes or cables, resting against the block. The crank K is then operated to wind the cables and draw the block and sacks up and onto the wagon-box or onto the platform.

It will be observed that I do not employ a sliding platform or carriage upon which the sack or other object to be elevated is placed, but that I use simply a transverse block against which the lower end of the sack rests, together with the cross-ropes D. These crossropes are therefore of considerable importance since they not only hold the sack off the bottom board of the slideway, but they also have a pulling action upon the sack and thereby assist the pushing action of the block. Another advantage due to the use of these cross-ropes is that as they pass around the .top idle-roller E when the sack .reaches the top of the slideway they tend to carry the sack with them, so that it is thereby discharged into the wagon or upon the platform M and does not have to be manually lifted from the elevator. The slide block cannot also be raised to the extreme upper end of the slideway.- Where a sliding platform or carriage is employed, this cannot be done without the back portion thereof projecting above the slideway in the way of the discharge of the sack unless means of special character are provided for obviating this difficulty.

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Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the slideway having the closed back or bottom portion and the lateral guides, together with an idle-ro1ler journaled transversely at its upper end, and winding mechanism upon .its under side, of the transverse slide block Whose end portions slidingly engage the said guideways, the two ropes connected at one end to the said slideblock and at the opposite end to said wind- 

